Race Roles In Black Westerns

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First off, I must say, this was one of the first movie I watched with the main hero being black. The only other film, I can remember with a black hero would be from Blazing Saddle. I feel this film has some of the elements that address issues of contemporary. I felt like film switched race roles in old western movies. This film portrayed people of African descent as just trying to make a living just like both white people and Native American at the time. But one can say that Black Westerns was just marketing to bring black viewers in, no different from the Blaxploitation movies like Shaft.
But this time period, films were also bumped up the extreme violent factor, the one seen with Preacher talking to the men playing cards, and Buck comes in

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